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Sunday Stats: Meet the Houdini of Handball – From SI, 1990

WPH Press

The WPH has proudly presented the WPH Sunday Stats since the start of 2020, highlighting the Race 4 Eight’s and Icebreaker’s greatest champions, longest winning streaks, greatest accomplishments, tournament directors, nicknames, obscure stats, handball’s origins and history, and so much more. This Sunday we’ll revisit the 1990 Sports Illustrated article focused on El Gato’s quest for #11. 

Sports Illustrated’s Hank Hersch chronicled Naty Alvarado’s handball beginnings and hardships, and desire to win his 11th USHA Four Wall National crown, the year after his protégé Poncho Monreal ended Naty’s streak of seven straight titles. 

Read Meet the Houdini of Handball HERE

Read the WPH’s Chasing El Gato HERE

David Fink

WPH Historian 

DV: David Vincent formed the World Players of Handball in 2005 and ushered live handball viewing into our living rooms for the first time. Since its inception, the World Players of Handball has broadcast over 1,500 matches live. Dave Vincent serves as the lead play-by-play announcer for virtually all matches, combining his unique perspective and personality with a lifetime of handball experience. DV brings 25 years of broadcast radio experience (in Oregon and California) to World Players of Handball & ESPN broadcasts and provides professionalism and wit to the amazing game of handball. DV also serves as the Executive Director of the World Player of Handball at the WPH headquarters in Tucson, AZ, working daily to grow the game of handball through innovation.
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